User talk:Thangalin

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Please take a look at Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia should not be used as a vehicle to promote your articles or generate Google ad revenue for your site. Thanks. Rhobite 01:58, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the above, and I'm as against link-spam as anyone. However, I do believe you've got a genuinely useful page there on setting up the wireless network under Mandrake. Perhaps if you ditch the Google ads on that page?—chris.lawson (talk) 05:34, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link Spam

Hi, folks.

First, and foremost, the Google advertising is:

1. unobtrusive (off to the side and quite small)

2. to pay for hosting the site (which it does; just barely)

3. starting to become ubiquitous, which will ultimately limit the number of genuinely useful articles to which the Wikipedia links.

Second, the wireless linux stuff *is* very useful, fairly current, and well supported by its author. ;-)

Third, I don't really care if the link remains -- Googling for "wireless linux" or "linux wireless network" or "wireless linux network" or similar will have my page listed within the top 10 hits. It's a valuable resource, and if the good folks at Wikipedia are put off by it having a teency ad on the side, and consequently wish to deny its readers a direct link to the content, then that's fine with me. Ultimately it will be the readers (and Linux) that suffers, not me. :-)

So much for information sharing, eh?

Dave

You were under the impression that it is OK to insert links to your own site into articles. I'm sorry, but you were mistaken. I probably shouldn't have mentioned the Google ads - with or without them, it is still not OK to use Wikipedia to promote your own site. If your articles are truly an indispensible and unique resource for Linux and wireless networking, please trust that someone else will add them. Rhobite 17:11, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)